Wikipedia talk:Colours

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Contents 1 Colour generation guide 1.1 Empty template box 2 Main Page color 3 Interesting external links 4 American vs. Canadian spelling 5 Talk box colours 6 Additions needed 7 Allowed colors? 8 active / inactive?

[edit] Colour generation guide

[edit] Empty template box

For your own use. Copy to your project-page, and replace in order: A?, B?, C?.

background:#A? border:#B?

background:#B? border:#C?

[edit] Main Page color

Re: table from main page redesign discussion archive

I'd appreciate someone giving a concise summary of how the new main page colours were selected. (I'm presumming the saturation/hue remained the consistent variables, as shown?)

Then we can generate a few additional colour schemes that all fit well together, helping keep wikipedia consistently styled where possible. --Quiddity 00:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

For the TFA/DYN sections, the the saturation/brightness values vary (as follows) with the hue remaining constant:

• For the heading background, the saturation is 15% and brightness is 95%.
• For the heading border, the saturation is 15% and brightness is 75%.
• For the box background, the saturation is 4% and brightness is 100%.

For the ITN/OTD sections, the saturation and brightness scheme is the same as above, but the hue (color) is different. Same goes for the Today's featured picture section. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:58, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Perfect. Thanks. i eventually got around to making the table above ;) -Quiddity 03:51, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interesting external links

List of things that are pertinent, but not suitable for the guideline page itself. --Quiddity 20:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

• Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design

[edit] American vs. Canadian spelling

How has it been decided to use the Canadian spelling for this project's page title?? Georgia guy 23:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

See the first 4 points at MoS#National varieties of English, and the table at MoS (spelling). -Quiddity 00:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

It's not just canada, as far as I'm aware, this is the spelling used in every english speaking country apart from the US Philc _T^E_C^I 22:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk box colours

How come the colours used in the little box that pops up and says your talk page has been edited aren't included in this article. Philc _T^E_C^I 22:52, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

There are hundreds of colours used in the various infoboxes, that arent listed here. Just look at the wiki code to see what colour is being used :) -Quiddity 23:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough, I just thought it was pretty central to wikipedia, and maybe it had been omitted by mistake. Philc _T^E_C^I 23:37, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Additions needed

Important are IMO some technical facts:

1. Most browsers use dark foreground colours, typically black for text, underlined blue for links, and a slightly different underlined blue for visited links.
2. That's also the case for old browsers not supporting CSS. Therefore changing the background colour is tricky:
3. Dark background colours are out - unless the foreground colour is also changed. Ideally checked with a service converting all colours to a black and white scheme, if it still works it should be fine also for the colourblind.
4. Mixing legacy markup and CSS can have hilarious effects like a legacy black/blue foreground on a dark background, if editors use bgcolor="black" for the BG, and style="color: white" for the FG.
5. Using a legacy <font color="white"> is deprecated. Violating that rule is an option, otherwise better don't use legacy markup for dark backgrounds.
6. Outside of CSS stay away from the hex. #rgb notation, old browsers only know #rrggbb (six hex. digits). Maybe use one of the sixteen colour names, that's guaranteed to work on the most limited devices, cell-phones, PDAs, printers, whatever, as far as they support colours.
7. Text browsers don't support colours. (They need them internally to display mixtures of italics / bold / etc. and logical style tags like <code> on text mode displays with a single monospaced font).
8. XHTML basic and XHTML print don't support inline CSS. If available use class= references to an external style sheet, for links see Wikipedia:Customisation.
9. See also my experimental page with links to a colourblind emulator. The interesting table above has no effect on legacy browsers (and often no effect is good news from my POV... ;-) -- Omniplex 15:16, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• We still need to add the above points,
• and merge Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Color
• And discuss expanding the recommendations into a full scheme (instead of just a handful of samples). --Quiddity 03:25, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I've started collecting and adding some wiki-ish palettes at User:Rfrisbie/Palettes. – Rfrisbie^talk 03:51, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Allowed colors?

This section seems to be a bit abrupt to be added without discussion. On what basis are these colors "allowed," implying others are "disallowed"? The list doesn't seem to be all that consistent with the HSB/HSV style of designating color palettes either. Rfrisbie^talk 04:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] active / inactive?

In the See Also section, the page "Infobox Colors" appears to be INACTIVE, whereas the "WikiProject Usability/Color" page appears to be ACTIVE. Should their designations on this page be changed or am I missing something? Newbie Laurie Fox 06:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Both are historical/inactive. I've updated accordingly. (this page has been inactive a while too, needs help.. Usability/Color should be merged here, plus the list of items above..) --Quiddity 20:57, 3 December 2006 (UTC)